Info sessions for displaced Butler students

Linda Conner Lambeck

Updated 8:13 pm, Sunday, January 27, 2013

HARTFORD -- Three information sessions are scheduled to help those students displaced by last month's abrupt closing of Butler Business School in Bridgeport and Sawyer School locations in Hamden and Hartford.

The sessions will be run by state and federal education officials as well as representatives from schools that have agreed to accept the former Butler and Sawyer students.

The sessions will be held Feb. 4 at 61 Woodland St. in Hartford, Feb. 7 at Gateway Community College in New Haven and Feb. 8 at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport. The tentative hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Hundreds of students were displaced by December's closing of Butler Business School and the Sawyer School locations. Most of the students were studying to become medical assistants and had taken out loans of up to $20,000 to pay for tuition.